Business

Imagine going to your company meeting in your pajamas. It might be more likely of a reality than you would think. With virtual events becoming a fast growing industry, many business and trade meetings are going online instead of meeting up in the real world.

If you try to sell you wares on Amazon, watch out: A new scam out there is sending fake Amazon receipts to merchants that look convincingly like the real ones and then claiming they never received their products. GFI Software discovered the software, which is free to download on the internet.

A unnamed Samsung official said that they hope to move 330 million handsets next year, an 18 percent increase from 2010, according to Reuters. It’s a bold number to state, especially because Samsung only sold 195 million units by the end of the third quarter of 2010. They’re expected to close out the year with a solid 280 million, and …

StumbleUpon’s ability to propagate viral material online is normally enjoyed by Internet junkies who just want to find out what’s out there on the web. But, founder and CEO Garrett Camp is banking that the site can be much more than that. With new options to be launched early next year, they believe they may have the next evolution …

The addition of Netflix’s streaming only plan has had many people excited. With a good portion of their movie and TV catalogue online, paying $7.99 for immediate unlimited legal, crystal clear video is barely nothing compared to cable plans and buying a television. The anticipated increase of Netflix online subscribers has some people …

For website owners, a spot on the first page of Google’s search results for a given query is the holy grail. Google uses a proprietary algorithm to determine a site’s influence on the web and assigns it a “Page Rank,” named after Google co-founder Larry Page.

For those of you who made an online purchase on Cyber Monday, congratulations you helped set the record for the biggest shopping day in online history. About $1.3 billion dollars was spent the Monday after Thanksgiving alone, up 16 percent since last year, according to comScore.